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NVIDIA Releases Its Stable 302 Driver w/ RandR 1.3

06-16-2012, 08:10 AM

Phoronix: NVIDIA Releases Its Stable 302 Driver w/ RandR 1.3

Before calling it a week, NVIDIA Linux engineers released the 302.17 stable Linux driver. This is the first stable/certified Linux driver in the 302.xx series and thus the first that brings the long-awaited RandR 1.2/1.3 support...

RandR is an extension to X. It is directly part of X. So that means RandR would obviously not work with Wayland as Randr is part of the X11 protocoll while wayland is it's own protocoll. Wayland implements it's own routines for doing what RandR does in X.

It's like asking: "Why is my Hondas steering wheel not part of your Toyota?"

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RandR is an extension to X. It is directly part of X. So that means RandR would obviously not work with Wayland as Randr is part of the X11 protocoll while wayland is it's own protocoll. Wayland implements it's own routines for doing what RandR does in X.

It's like asking: "Why is my Hondas steering wheel not part of your Toyota?"

That's not my question.
My question was, to put it in other words: what is Wayland's solution called that does the stuff that RandR does in X?

I mean, we all saw youtube videos of Wayland (or Weston?) rotating textboxes and windows, right? Is that Wayland's equivalent of RandR? What's it called? How is it different (technologically) from X's approach (RandR)?